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    "pk": 25624,
    "title": "Memory Strategically Encodes Externally Unavailable Information",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In the present study, we test the theory that humans selectively\nencode incoming sensory information on an as-necessary basis,\nwhen the information would not be accessible otherwise, in\norder to compensate for cognitive limitations on the quantity of\nnew information that they can encode. We investigate whether\nexternal informational sources—much like high-level knowledge\nobtained from previous experiences—can spare learners\nfrom having to encode all new information in fine-grained detail.\nIf this is true, we would expect to observe differences\nbetween the way human learners encode new information that\nthey know to be easily available through external informational\nresources (e.g., names of actors in a movie, the date of a historical\nevent) and those that they know are not (e.g., names of\nnew acquaintances, the date of a wedding anniversary). Specifically,\nwe would expect learners to encode far less detail for\ninformation that is available through known external informational\nresources than for information that is not. We present\nevidence from a study run on Amazon Mechanical Turk that\nhuman memory preferentially encodes information that is not\nexpected to be available from external informational resources.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Memory; learning; education; human experimentation."
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8545d92j",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Carla",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Macias",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Amanda",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Yung",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Pernille",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Hemmer",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Rutgers University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Celeste",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Kidd",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Rochester",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}